And the Winners of Our 2017 Mock Caldecott Are . . .
Over 500 K-4th grade students read, discussed, and debated a group of the best picture books of 2016. This week they voted. And the winners of our 2017 Mock Caldecott are . . .
MOCK CALDECOTT MEDAL:
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The Night Gardener by Terry and Eric Fan
MOCK CALDECOTT HONOR:
Maybe Something Beautiful by F. Isabel Campoy & Theresa Howell, illustrated by Rafael López
MOCK CALDECOTT HONOR:
They All Saw a Cat by Brendan Wenzel
MOCK CALDECOTT HONOR:
We Found a Hat by Jon Klassen
Now to see what the official Caldecott committee selects tomorrow morning. Click here to bookmark the live webcast, beginning at 8:00 AM ET.
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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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Great choices! Night Gardener is doing well at my school, but we are a bit behind from snow days. Can you recommend a way to record the webcast? We will be watching it first hour tomorrow, but I want to show it to my other library classes as well.
Dana,
The webcast is usually available afterward…I certainly hope they are planning that for this year as well as I have to work during the actual award program…Looking forward to it!
Julia